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What do the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks have in common with legendary NBA great Wilt Chamberlain?
Only rules can slow them down.
Too often when people talk about the greatest in NBA history, they hand the mantle to Michael Jordan, certainly a worthy recipient but even MJ wasn't Wilt.
Numbers could never adequately describe just what kind of impact Chamberlain had on the game of basketball. What does is the rule changes implemented by the league to slow him down.
The NBA widened the lane to try to keep Wilt farther away from the bucket, instituted offensive goaltending and revised rules governing inbounding the ball and shooting free throws, all because of Chamberlain was too dominant. Believe it or not he was physically able to convert free throws via slam dunk without a running start.
The NBA hasn't changed a rule because of one player since. Not for Bill Russell or Jordan and it certainly won't be changing things anytime soon with the intent of slowing down LeBron James.
Enter the Seahawks, who are fresh off the franchise's first Super Bowl win, a 43-8 drubbing Denver in Super Bowl XLVIII, a Broncos team which just happened to be the first NFL in history to score over 600 points in a season.
That meant little to Seattle's physical defense, which helped build a 22-0 halftime lead, and a humbling 36-0 advantage before finally allowing the Broncos' first score on the final play of the third quarter.
The Seahawks' stingy stop unit scored a safety on the first play from scrimmage -- the quickest score in Super Bowl history -- before tacking on an interception return for a score from linebacker Malcolm Smith, who also recovered a fumble and made nine tackles en route to being named Super Bowl MVP.
When the carnage was finally over the Broncos were held to nearly 30 points below their scoring average and five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning had thrown two picks.
Fast forward to the 2014 preseason and the NFL reacted to Seattle's dominance by "enhancing" emphasis on certain penalties, including illegal contact and defensive holding.
Many believe the new overreaching on illegal contact and defensive holding is a direct result of the Seahawks' success last season, almost a warning to "The Legion of Boom," the ultra-physical defensive backfield which consistently beat up on opposing receivers en route to the Lombardi Trophy.
Despite being the most penalized team in the league in 2013 the Seahawks reached the pinnacle by forcing officials to throw the flag in key moments, something head coach Pete Carroll correctly surmised most wouldn't be willing to do because the vast majority of zebras really do want the players to decide the games, not their judgment calls.
In the old days, the answer to the that success would have been a market correction fueled by coaches around the league.
Armed with the knowledge that the best team in football had collected a plethora of big, rugged defensive backs, mentors would have responded with undersized, ultra-quick route runners in which the Seattle defense couldn't get its hands on -- think the old Washington Redskins' "Fun Bunch" or the "Three Amigos" in Denver.
The league is not waiting for that natural evolution, however, and has taken matters into its own hands. So far there has been an average of about 20 flags a game in the preseason, up nearly seven per game from the same period in 2013 and something Carroll hopes changes when the regular season gets underway.
"I hope that the league office will be open to the conversation," the veteran coach said earlier this preseason. "It doesn't seem quite right. It seems like there are too many calls being made and too many incidental calls that seem to be affecting the game. So, we'll see -- It's obviously different. So, the question is: Is it better? I don't know."
For now, the league is holding it's ground, insisting that the renewed emphasis on these particular penalties will continue throughout the regular season.
"We're not going to change how we're calling the games once the regular season starts," NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino told MMQB.com.
Blandino's belief, however, is that teams will adjust to the stricter rules and play accordingly, meaning the extra flags will disappear, a scenario the league has tried to sell from the beginning of this process.
"The way the game's being officiated now is the way it's going to be officiated when the season begins," Blandino said. "We have to remain consistent. I knew we'd see a spike in calls when we put out these points of emphasis.
"But coaches adjust, and players adjust. They have to, and they know it. And we'll correct our officials when we feel they're being overzealous with certain calls."
Carroll's not about to adjust, though, and the Seahawks' plan will remain the same -- beat up receivers and force the referees to throw the flag.
2013 RECORD: 13-3 (first, NFC West)
LAST PLAYOFF APPEARANCE: 2013, won Super Bowl XLVIII over Denver.
HEAD COACH (RECORD): Pete Carroll (38-26 in four seasons with Seahawks, 71-57 in eight seasons overall)
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR: Darrell Bevell (fourth season with Seahawks)
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR: Dan Quinn (second season back with Seahawks)
KEY ADDITIONS: DT Kevin Williams (from Vikings), CB Phillip Adams (from Raiders), OG Steve Schilling (from 49ers), WR Paul Richardson (second round, Colorado) OT Justin Britt (second round, Missouri)
KEY DEPARTURES: CB Brandon Browner (to Patriots), DE Red Bryant (to Jaguars), DE Chris Clemons (to Jaguars), TE Kellen Davis (to Giants), OT Breno Giacomini (to Jets), FS Chris Maragos (to Eagles), DT Clinton McDonald (to Buccaneers), OT Paul McQuistan (to Browns), WR Golden Tate (to Lions), CB Walter Thurmond (to Giants)
QB: Measured at under 5-foot-11 Russell Wilson doesn't look like your prototypical NFL quarterback but he plays with an uncommon self-assuredness, fueled by an innate ability to keep his eyes up and always looking downfield.
The University of Wisconsin product has the requisite speed and elusiveness, along with the arm strength to be a dangerous dual-threat under center. His feel and natural instincts for the game leave him well-prepared for any adjustments opposing defensive coordinators make.
Wilson already has 28 wins in two years (regular season and postseason), the most in NFL history for a starter, and became the third-youngest QB to win the NFL title last year.
There is plenty of experience behind Wilson with former Minnesota starter Tarvaris Jackson as well as ex-Raider leader Terrelle Pryor.
RB: A strong running game opens up play-action for Wilson, who, like most young quarterbacks, is best when making the high-low read and getting the ball out quickly.
Marshawn Lynch is the bell cow, a bruising, move-the-chains type who can quickly turn arm tackles into turnstiles, setting a career-high with 14 total touchdowns in 2013. He leads the NFL with 39 total touchdowns since 2011 and is the only player in the NFL to rush for over 1,000 yards and score 10 rushing touchdowns in each of the last three seasons.
The punishing Lynch can wear down any defense with his bowling ball-like running style and ability to break tackles but he also takes a ton of punishment and his potential longevity as a top back has to be a question in the back of nearly everyone's mind.
The depth is largely unproven with third-year man Robert Turbin, a big back in the mold of Lynch, trying to hold off Texas A&M second-year prospect Christine Michael, a more gifted runner.
Fullback Derrick Coleman is a bit undersized and lacks the punch to be a top- tier, lead-isolation blocker.
WR: The Seahawks finally saw the kind of big-play ability Percy Harvin provides in the Super Bowl. The receiver, who was acquired from Minnesota for a first-round pick before the season, spent the majority of 2013 rehabbing from hip surgery before piling up 137 all-purpose yards (team-leading 45 rushing, five receiving and an 87-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to open the second-half) in the Super Bowl.
Harvin is a heck of a talent and one of the best playmakers in all of football, a YAC (yards after catch) machine and an absolute field-tilter as the game's best pure kickoff returner. He is, however, moody at times and an injury-prone player prone to migraine headaches.
Doug Baldwin had 50 catches last year and was Wilson's top outside the numbers threat late last season, while Jermaine Kearse is a solid third-option in the downfield passing game.
The Seahawks traded out of the first round before reaching for undersized speed threat Paul Richardson at wide receiver in the second. Richardson is a one-trick pony who can run by just about everyone but the least physical corner in the game could maul him at the line of scrimmage. Turn around the classic cliche when talking about Richardson in the NFL, he's a boy among men.
Alabama WR Kevin Norwood, a fourth-round pick, has a better chance to help this team than Richardson. Norwood has some size at 6-foof-2 and should be able to help on special teams but is currently still recovering from surgery to remove bone spurs from his foot, the result of an injury that has lingered since his college days at Alabama.
TE: Tight end Zach Miller is one of the few true two-way tight ends left. He has good functional speed to run routes, along with outstanding body control and a good feel on when to sit down in the zone. He's not a mauler as a blocker but he knows how to get his body in position to block linebackers and walls off very well.
"It adds that consistency, it adds that competitive nature for sure. Zach is so competitive," Wilson said of his tight end. "He's so physical, he's a playmaker, and he does the right thing. To have a guy at the tight end position who does the right thing every time, we want that, and that's what we have in Zach for sure."
The depth behind Miller is scarce although second-year man Luke Wilson could develop into a seam threat.
OL: The Seattle line is considered one of the Seahawks' biggest weaknesses although left tackle Russell Okung and center Max Unger are certainly well above average players at their respective positions.
Unger is a strong pass blocker, who mirrors well, while Okung, although never living up to his position as the sixth overall pick in the 2010 draft, is an athletic, consistent lineman in both phases who has reached a Pro-Bowl level in the past.
The rest of the group is far more pedestrian with converted defensive lineman J.R. Sweezy and former undrafted free agent Caylin Hauptmann flanking Unger inside, and rookie second-round pick Justin Britt at right tackle.
Britt was certainly a selection at a need position but he was given a late- round grade by most scouts and isn't very physical, spending most of his time working out of a 2-point stance in a spread-option offense at Mizzou.
"He gets it. Nothing is too big for him," offensive line coach Tom Cable said when discussing his rookie. "He really has a good background and he's ready for something like this. He's been in the right kind of environments and he's doing really well."
DL: Carroll was intent on improving the pass rush last year and he was able to do it with a committee approach on the line. Seven or eight players got significant reps depending on the game plan with defensive ends Michael Bennett (8 1/2 sacks) and Cliff Avril (8.0 sacks) spearheading the improved rush.
Three of the pieces were lost in free agency though with both Red Bryant and Chris Clemons rejoining Gus Bradley in Jacksonville, and interior rusher Clinton McDonald finding a new home in Tampa Bay.
The underrated Brandon Mebane and Tony McDaniel hold down the fort inside and will be joined by aging, ex-Minnesota All-Pro Kevin Williams. Since 2011, Mebane ranks second in the NFC among interior lineman with 157 tackles while Williams is now 33 but the five-time All-Pro should still have some gas left in the tank, especially as a rotational player on a deep front.
"I think if I'm playing 500 plays versus 700 plays at this age I can definitely still get after the quarterback," Williams said. "It's an awesome chance to get in and play a limited number of snaps and maximize the ability I have."
LB: Third-year middle linebacker Bobby Wagner is the captain of the defense. He left Utah State as the university's all-time tackler with 446 during and hasn't missed a beat in the NFL, finishing second in the Defensive Rookie of the Year voting in 2012 after amassing 140 tackles before following that up with a team-high 119 tackles in 2013 despite missing two games due to a high ankle sprain. A smart and instinctive player, Wagner really reads and diagnoses well against the run.
"Bobby has really played well," said Carroll. "I think he has just jumped on board of all of the command of the defense and the calls and the adjustments that he has to make."
Wagner hasn't played in the preseason due to a hamstring injury but should be ready to ho when the bell sounds.
"I've been doing as much conditioning as I possibly can," Wagner told the Seattle Times. "That's why we do all the running in the offseason and getting in shape. I feel like I'm still in pretty good shape."
Wagner's flanked by the athletic K.J. Wright and Smith, who sealed the NFC Championship Game with the interception off a Richard Sherman PBU and then earned Super Bowl MVP honors.
"(Wright is) a fantastic coverage guy. He has great instincts, he's got great sense, he studies really hard, he's got tremendous range because he is so long, he runs really well, he's a fast guy too, and he's got a good attitude about challenging," Carroll said when queried about Wright before adding that Smith "has tremendous skills and he's really fast, like a defensive back or running back, and he's a natural athlete as well."
Smith has been slow to recover from offseason ankle surgery but is back practicing. Pass-rusher Bruce Irvin, however, is still recovering from offseason hip surgery and is unlikely to return in time for the opener at CenturyLink Field against Green Bay. The 2012 first-round pick has yet to practice with the team.
"He's working really hard -- all his change-of-direction stuff, full-speed running, all of that's happening -- but we're gonna wait and make sure that every day goes well, and hopefully get him out there cranking," Carroll said when talking about Irvin.
Backup Heath Farwell, a special-teams stalwart, will likely require surgery on a groin strain he suffered in Week 3 of the preseason.
"Heath is going back east to get evaluated -- he probably has to have surgery on his groin," Carroll said. "So that's a very difficult situation for him. He had extensive damage, so everything points to surgery."
DB: Seattle's defense is led by the best secondary in the NFL, with three of the four starters earning Pro Bowl or All-Pro recognition over the past three seasons. Sherman matched his career high with eight interceptions and became the first Seahawks player to lead NFL in interceptions since 1993, while safety Earl Thomas set a career high with 100 tackles and tied his career high with five interceptions.
The other Pro Bowl-type in the defensive backfield is massive strong safety Kam Chancellor, who is regarded as one of the hardest-hitting safeties in the NFL, amassing 278 tackles since 2011.
The runt of the litter so to speak is CB Byron Maxwell, who took over for the suspended Brandon Browner last year, starting the last five games. If anything Maxwell has better coverage skills over Browner, who is now in New England, but he is not as physical and far more likely to bail out into coverage at the line of scrimmage.
"(He is) a natural football player, a real savvy, tough guy," Carroll said when talking about Maxwell. "He's been given a real package technically. We were just lucky to get him and we appreciate him a little bit more than some other teams I guess, because of what we saw in him."
CB Jeremy Lane and safety Jeron Johnson will also contribute to a Seattle secondary which allowed just 16 touchdown passes on the season and ranked first in opposing quarterback passer rating, harassing them to a 63.4 mark. Lane, however, is dealing with a groin injury.
SPECIAL TEAMS: Since being claimed off waivers before the 2011 regular season, Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka has become one of the most reliable kickers under 50 yards in the league, as he ranks tied for second in the NFL with a .938 field goal percentage.
He was 33-for-35 last season with a long of 53 yards and recorded his first- two game-winning field goals of his career last season (a 45-yarder at Houston and a chip-shot versus Tampa Bay). Hauschka ranked fourth in the NFL in points (143) in 2013 and his career-high .943 field goal percentage was second in the NFL.
Seattle punter Jon Ryan is an excellent directional guy with serious hang- time, Of his 74 punts, opponents fair-caught 30 of them, and returned the remaining ones for just punts 82 yards, ranking as the second-least return yards in the NFL this season and sixth overall in NFL history for a 16-game season.
Harvin, on the other hand, is one of the best kickoff returners ever with the lower body strength to break tackles and the sprinter-like speed to outrun most while Thomas is dangerous on punts.
The coverage teams have taken a major hit due to the loss of Farwell as well of the departure of Chris Maragos in free agency.
COACHING: Carroll is an energetic guy who seems on the cutting edge of ongoing NFL trends thanks to his time in college where the up-tempo offensive game has its roots.
Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell has done a wonderful job mentoring Wilson and will be a head coach sooner rather that later. Dan Quinn, meanwhile, replaced Gus Bradley with nary a hiccup and got some interest from Cleveland as a head-coaching candidate in the offseason. Another solid year from the defense will put Quinn on many more short lists.
THE SKINNY: Super Bowl hangovers are real and Carroll and Co. figure to be searching for the aspirin on more than one occasion this year.
The first headache came from Lynch and his wrangling for more guaranteed money in an era where fewer and fewer running backs are getting big money. Injuries have also been a problem in the preseason.
On the field, the reigning Super Bowl champs are loaded just about everywhere you look, however, and it's hard to imagine this team not making a significant run in the playoffs.


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Light pitched 43.1 innings for the Tornado in eight games, spending all but six innings in the circle for King this week. She went 4-3 with a miniscule ERA of 1.33 and pitched a pair of shutouts, a 5-1 win over Wingate University on Wednesday at home and Kentucky Wesleyan College at the Captain D's Classic. She threw six complete games and gave up only nine earned runs on the week while compiling 38 strikeouts. She ranks fourth in the conference in ERA and strikeouts per game while leading the league in wins, strikeouts, appearances, innings, and complete games.
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I rode my bike to that house. There's a new curtain hanging in our window. It seems like everything is changing right now. Will you still feel the same come tomorrow? I've got this photograph of you and me. You've got that same crooked smile on your face. We should have died inside that photograph before you were going away for a while.
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The images - leaked to Pocketnow.com - show that the new laptop come tablet device will match Microsoft's own Surface offering and Samsung's teased Windows 8 tablet by coming with a foldaway keyboard.
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On closer inspection the official-looking press shots show that the device will have a foldaway rather than detachable keyboard and be aimed at the Windows 8 rather than Window RT crowd.
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The first thing Jake Hogeboom, CEO of @HomeRealty Lakeshore, does upon hiring a new broker for his firm is to NOT hand that person a coffee mug with an omnipresent corporate logo and a procedures manual thicker than the Oxford English Dictionary.
He presents agents with company-issued Apple iPads instead, then invites them to join him for a cup of freshly brewed java in the kitchen suite at the front entrance to the home office.
Hogeboom can�t stop smiling while explaining the non-traditional approach he is undertaking to put a modern stamp on an old-fashioned industry.
�There�s a lot of people who are (skeptical),� Hogeboom said of creating a very different real-estate brokerage, which emphasizes a more personalized and technology-focused experience for clients. �It�s just time for something fresh. I think the timing was right for us to start this when we did.�
The skeptics might see him as an overly ambitious 29-year-old with a grandiose business plan.
He has the support of his father, former CBS reality-television series �Survivor: Guatemala� contestant and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Gary Hogeboom, who is a licensed real-estate agent.
Together, they are the co-owners of @HomeRealty Lakeshore, but Jake, a former Hope College basketball player, is calling all the signals from the huddle of this franchise.
Jake�s team sold more than 700 units totaling approximately $100 million in 2013. He projects sales of 800 units and $150 million in 2014.
�I love what he�s doing with it,� Gary Hogeboom said of his son�s leadership of the firm. �He had his own company when he first started out and then he went to a big corporate firm, where he found what he liked and didn�t like. I�ve had a great time just watching him and seeing him run with it.�
The firm�s unique approach is communicated in its highly original nameplate.
Jake has brought digital thinking to the forefront of buying and selling properties.
He operates the main office, 11539 Lakewood Blvd., in Holland Township, which opened recently after being relocated from a temporary site on Eighth Street in Holland, as well as a second office in Grand Haven. The location in Grand Haven, 510 Miller Drive, launched the firm in April.
His combined staff of 25 brokers and eight full-time employees range in age from 29 to 55.
�Our average age is probably 35-ish while the industry average is 54,� Jake said. �I�m using a sports analogy: We�re building this like a sports program with fresh, new ideas. We�re focused more on the workplace culture and just working with families on a better overall experience.
�Our motto is just to make our clients feel like they�re at home.�
Three of the top 10 and six of the top 30 agents in the Holland area left other firms to join the @HomeRealty team.
Luke Bouman, 29, didn�t hesitate to jump from Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt.
�It was tough. I really liked Coldwell,� said Bouman, recognized as one of Realtor magazine�s top �30 under 30� rising stars nationally in the real-estate industry this past spring. �I just really looked it as, �Where am I going to succeed long-term?� There�s a lot of things you can�t put your own stamp on (working for a traditional real-estate company).
�It�s going to be a lot easier for me to build the Luke Bouman team this way.�
In addition to issuing iPads to agents, Jake, who managed the Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt office in Grand Haven before leaving to start his own firm, provides an all-inclusive experience that features a title company to handle closings on-site at both locations.
�We do all of our own closings at our office so our clients don�t have to go to another location for that,� he said of a partnership with Lighthouse Title Group that simplifies and expedites the entire process.
It�s also a mostly paperless operation, emphasizing the use of digital documents to help protect the environment. Buyers and sellers sign their names on tablets instead of reams of paper.
�I still have my same marketing team and I haven�t lost a single client as a result of it,� Bouman said of switching firms.
It isn�t just a different method of buying and selling properties that sets @HomeRealty apart. The firm has established its own charitable foundation to assist local nonprofit groups.
The @Home Foundation, fully funded by the efforts of agents and staff from both offices, has set a goal of contributing $50,000 annually to local charities, Jake said.
�We�re 100 percent local. Everything stays right here,� Bouman stressed. "Local is important in West Michigan. We make all of our own decisions, which is really nice. I�ve had a lot of companies recruiting me, but there�s no excitement, no enthusiasm, like there is here.�
No other real-estate brokerage is doing business in quite the same manner.
The relaxing coffee bar, children�s play area and contemporary sofas and other furnishings are definite signs things are different upon stepping into the @HomeRealty office in Holland Township.
�I just thought we could do things better. It�s fun being an owner with my dad. The larger companies have a different mindset,� Jake explained. �We just think of this in a different manner.
�It�s about agent branding and not corporate branding here. The plan is to stay local. I don�t have any dreams to franchise it,� he said. �We don�t just want anybody being an agent for us � we want the best in the business to be part of our team. Our goal is to spend as much time with the client as possible.�
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Project Objective
Due Process Documents
Next Steps
*Decisions Reached at Last Meeting
*Summary of Decisions Reached to Date
Board Meeting Minutes and Public Meeting Information
Field Tests and Research Study
*Working Groups
Background Information and Project Phases
Contact Information
Outreach Activities on July Staff Draft
- Listen to a brief podcast that explains why the Staff Draft was posted, provides a high level description of the proposals and changes from the Discussion Paper, and discusses planned outreach activities.
- View a webinar recorded by IASB Board Member Stephen Cooper, which provides a technical overview of the proposals in the Staff Draft.
- View a webinar recorded by IASB Board Member Patricia McConnell and FASB Board Member Marc Siegel discussing the tentative decisions on the statement of cash flows included in the Staff Draft.
- Click here for a summary of the activities the staff is engaging in as part of the extended outreach on financial statement presentation.
Project Objective
The purpose of this joint project is to establish a standard that will guide the organization and presentation of information in the financial statements. The results of this project will directly affect how the management of an entity communicates financial statement information to users of financial statements, such as present and potential equity investors, lenders, and other creditors. The boards' goal is to improve the usefulness of the information provided in an entity's financial statements to help users make decisions in their capacity as capital providers.
In their Phase B discussions, the Boards developed two core principles for financial statement presentation based on the objectives of financial reporting and the input the boards received from users of financial statements and from members of their advisory groups. Those proposed principles state that information should be presented in the financial statements in a manner that:
- Disaggregates information so that it is useful in predicting an entity's future cash flows. Disaggregation means separating resources by the activity in which they are used and by their economic characteristics.
- Portrays a cohesive financial picture of an entity's activities. A cohesive financial picture means that the relationship between items across financial statements is clear and that an entity's financial statements complement each other as much as possible.
Due Process Documents
Staff Draft
The staff of the FASB and IASB engaged in a focused and targeted outreach program on the boards' joint Financial Statement Presentation (FSP) Project before finalizing and publishing an exposure draft.
To facilitate their outreach efforts, the boards decided that a draft of the proposed standards would be an effective way of communicating their tentative decisions reached to date (which is referred to as a "staff draft"). The draft reflects the cumulative tentative decisions made by the boards concluding with their joint meeting in April 2010. However, work on the project is continuing, and the proposals are subject to change. The staff draft has not been approved by either the FASB or the IASB.
Introduction to and summary of the July 2010 staff draft
FASB staff draft
IASB staff draft
Note: For ease of understanding the differences in the boards' tentative decisions, the IASB staff draft includes paragraphs that would be proposed by the FASB but not the IASB and the FASB staff draft includes paragraphs that would be proposed by the IASB but not the FASB.
Discussion Paper (Phase B only)
On October 16, 2008, both boards published for public comment a discussion paper, Preliminary Views on Financial Statement Presentation. The FASB discussion paper and the IASB discussion paper are the same except for differences in style/format. The comment period ended on April 14, 2009.
Information Related to the Discussion Paper
Phase A
The boards completed their deliberations on Phase A in December 2005. On March 16, 2006, the IASB published its Phase A exposure draft, Proposed Amendments to IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements: A Revised Presentation. The FASB decided to consider phases A and B issues together and, therefore, did not publish an exposure draft on phase A. After considering the responses to its exposure draft, the IASB issued a revised version of IAS 1 in September 2007. The revisions to IAS 1 affected the presentation of changes in equity and the presentation of comprehensive income, bringing IAS 1 largely into line with FASB Statement No. 130, Reporting Comprehensive Income (Statement 130). The FASB's tentative decisions on Phase A issues are included in the FASB July 2010 staff draft.
Next Steps
After completing and carefully considering the results of the outreach activities, the Boards will deliberate and make changes as appropriate to their tentative decisions as reflected in the staff draft. At their October 2010 joint meeting, the Boards acknowledged that they do not have the capacity currently to devote the time necessary to consider the information learned during outreach activities and modify their tentative decisions. Consequently, the Boards decided to not issue an Exposure Draft in the first quarter 2011 as originally planned.
The staff will present the results of their outreach activities with the Boards at their March 2011 meeting. The Boards will return to this project when they have the requisite capacity. This is expected to be after June 2011.
*Decisions Reached at Last Meeting
The staff presented the results of its outreach activities related to the July 2010 staff draft of an Exposure Draft on financial statement presentation. The Boards reiterated their October 2010 decision that they will return to this project when they have the requisite capacity.
No decisions were made regarding technical aspects of the project or the timing of future Board meetings.
Summary of Decisions Reached to Date (as of April 22, 2010)
Board Meeting Minutes and Public Meeting Information
Field Tests and Research Study on October 2008 Discussion Paper
During the 6-month comment period on the discussion paper, 30 entities participated in a field test. As part of the field test, participant companies recast two years of financial statements using the principles and application guidance in the discussion paper and completed a survey about that recasting exercise. A summary of the survey responses is provided as part of the July 2009 joint meeting papers.
At board meetings in September 2009, the boards discussed the analyst portion of the field test and the results of an experimental study on the proposed presentation model that was conducted by the Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative (FASRI).
Information on both the analyst field test and the FASRI study are available in the September 2009 meeting materials.
*Working Groups
To further their research, the boards and staff have been seeking input informally from the following groups on a regular basis:
The Joint International Group (JIG) on financial statement presentation was formed in 2005 to help the boards and staffs identify issues to be considered in this project and develop proposed solutions. The JIG consists of senior professionals with extensive experience in and responsibility for the preparation, analysis, audit, and regulation of financial statements. The JIG does not include members from the financial institution preparer or user community. JIG Members
The boards formed a Financial Institution Advisory Group (FIAG) in September 2006 to help them address presentation issues from the perspective of those who analyze and prepare financial institution financial statements. FIAG MembersBoard members and staff met with members of both the JIG and the FIAG on December 6, 2010 in Norwalk and London (by video).
View meeting materials and minutes for past JIG and FIAG meetings.
Background Information and Project Phases
In 2001, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) added to their respective agendas a project on reporting financial performance and conducted those projects independently of one another. In 2004, the boards agreed that they should conduct a project of this nature jointly to promote the convergence of accounting standards used internationally. The FASB and IASB are sharing staff resources and research for this joint project. The joint project team consists of staff from the FASB, the IASB, and the ASBJ (Accounting Standards Board of Japan).
In agreeing to pursue their similar projects jointly, the boards agreed to take a fresh look at the presentation of information in financial statements. The joint project scope goes beyond presentation and display of items of income and expense; it addresses presentation and display on the face of the financial statements that constitute a complete set of financial statements. In April 2004, the boards decided to approach the project in three phases:
- Phase A would address the statements that constitute a complete set of financial statements and the periods for which they are required to be presented. [See above]
- Phase B would address more fundamental issues relating to presentation and display of information in the financial statements, including aggregating and disaggregating information in each primary financial statement, defining totals and subtotals, and reconsidering the use of a direct or an indirect method of presenting operating cash flows. [In process]
- Phase C would address the presentation and display of interim financial information in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The IASB also may reconsider the requirements in IAS 34, Interim Financial Reporting. [Not yet started]
Paper explaining the history of the project (JIG meeting agenda paper, January 2005)
Summary of User Interviews, FASB Staff Paper, February 2002
FASB Proposal for a Project on Reporting Financial Performance (August 17, 2001)
Contact Information
Nicholas Cappiello
FASB Project Manager
Holger Obst
IASB Technical Manager
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This week I ventured into the land of genealogy wiki. I have used wikis on a very basic level, mostly for reading and research. First off what is a wiki? Here are several definitions listed online:
*is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify, and organize web page content in a collaborative manner.
*A wiki is an editable webpage. They are used in situations where a group of people need to create, edit and review each others documents.
Ward Cunningham, creator of Wiki states the following :
"A wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape."
For more in depth explanation of wikis and how they work:
*About.com : Web Trends : A Comprehensive Guide to Wikis : a beginner's guide to the World of Wiki from Daniel Nations, former About.com Guide
*Cyndi's List : Wikis for Genealogy
Several genealogy wikis I discovered this week :
*Family Search : Research Wiki : free family history research advice for the community, by the community. - also found on Facebook
*Our Archives by the National Archives : Genealogical and Family History Research at the National Archives
*We Relate : the world's largest genealogy wiki
This week was spent learning how wikis operate and can contribute to genealogical research. Next challenge will be to add content to one of these wikis.


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Bitter Lemon Press, 2004, 14.95, 260 pp. ISBN: 1904738028 In Munich, the beautiful but obviously nervous Russian Sonia Kovalevskaya hails the taxi that fifty years old Harry Willemer drives for a living. She asks him to take her around Munich before dropping her off at the airport to catch a flight to Luxembourg. She explains to Harry that her Russian Mafia husband is after her because she stole four million dollars of their loot. Somehow S...


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By Greg Schulz, Server and StorageIO @storageio
Let us pick up where we left off in part III in our look beyond the covers to help answer the question of which is the best HDD to use.
Power and energy
Power consumption will vary based on size and type of HDD, along with different usage. For example, during power-up there is a larger amount of energy being used vs. when the drive is idle (not reading or writing) yet still spinning, or actively reading and writing. With intelligent power management (IPM), inactive drives can go into lower power usage modes with variable performance. IPM includes the ability to vary the amount of power used to level of performance with different steps or levels. This is different from some first generation MAID solutions based on desktop class drives that were either on or off with subsequent performance issues. While an HDD requires power to spin the platters, once those are in motion, less power is required; however, energy is needed for the read write heads and associated electronics.
This leads to a common myth or misperception that HDDs consume a lot of energy because they are spinning. There is energy being used to keep the platters moving, however power is also required for the electronics to manage the drives interface, read write heads and other functions. With IPM leaving the drive spinning or reducing the rotational speed can help save power, so to can disabling or putting into low power mode the associated processors and control electronics.
As a comparison SSD, drives are often touted as not drawing as much energy compared to an HDD, which is true. However, SSDs do in fact consume electricity and get warm as they also have electronics and control processors similar to HDDs. If you do not believe this, put an SSD to work and feel it over time as it heats up. Granted that is an apple to oranges comparisons, however my point is that there is more to energy savings with HDDs than simply focusing on the rotational speeds. Speaking of energy savings, typical enterprise class drives are in the 4 to 8 watts or a fraction of what they were only a few years ago. Notebook, laptop and workstation drives can be in the single watt to a few watts in power usage range. Note that these numbers may be less than what some will talk about when comparing SSD and HDDs, or trying to make a point about HDDs and power consumption. The reason is this is a reduction from where just a few years ago when drives were in the "teens" in terms of watts per drive. For performance or active drives, compare those on a cost per activity per watt such as cost per IOP per watt, for inactive data then cost per capacity per watt can be relevant.
Given the large amount of data that can be stored on an HDD along with compliance and other concerns, drive level security is becoming more common. There are different types of drive level encryption including self-encrypting devices (SEDs) with some supporting FIPS level requirements. Drive level encryption depending on implementation can be used to off-load servers, workstations or storage systems from performing encrypt and decrypt functions.
Space capacity
The space capacity of the drives is determined by the aerial density (how many bits in a given amount of space) per platter, the size of the platter (3.5" are larger than 2.5") and number of platters. For example at the same aerial density, more bits and bytes exist on a 3.5" vs. 2.5" device, and by adding more platters (along with read/write heads) the resulting taller height drive has even more space capacity. Drive space capacities include 4TB and smaller for 3.5" devices and TB plus sized for various 2.5" form factors. Watch out for "packaging" games where for example a drive is offered as say 4TB that are actually two separate 2TB drives in a common enclosure (no RAID or NAS or anything else).
The super parametric barrier effects keeps being delayed, first with perpendicular recording, now with shingled magnetic recording (SMR) and heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) all in the works. The super parametric barrier is the point where data bits can no longer safely (with data integrity) be stored and later used without introducing instability. Watch for more on SMR and HAMR in a later post when we look at new and emerging trends.
Speaking of space capacity, ever wonder where those missing bits and bytes disappeared on a HDD or SSD? First there is how it is measured, meaning decimal or base10 vs. binary base 2 for example one Gigabyte (GB) being one billion bytes vs. 1,024,000,000.00 bytes. These space capacities are before RAID or hypervisor or operating system and file system formatting overhead are added. There is also reserved space for bad block re vectoring which can be thought of as hot spare blocks for when the drive (HDD or SSD) detects something going bad. In addition to the bad block areas, there are also some reserved space that you will not be able to access that is kept for drive management, read/write head alignment and other things.
Speaking of large capacity drives, as mentioned earlier, rebuild operations with RAID configurations can take longer given more data to move. Good news is that some RAID systems or solutions can rebuild a 1TB or 2TB drive as fast as or faster than a 9GB drive from a decade ago. The catch is that there are more drives and they are getting larger with 3TB and 4TB shipping and larger ones in the works. Things you can do to minimize the impact of long rebuild times; include selecting the right type of drive that has better endurance, reliability and availability. This could mean that selecting a lower priced drive up front that is not as reliable could cost you down the road. Configuration including RAID level, number of parity drivers, and software, adapter, controller or storage system with ability to accelerate rebuilds can also make a difference.
Another impact of large capacity drives or large numbers of HDDs in general is how to securely erase them when decommissioning. That is assuming you are securely erasing them or taking other safeguards disposition vs. throwing in the garbage or giving them away. Self-encrypting devices (SEDs) normally associated with security can be part of a solution for some environments. Since SEDs can effectively erase the data stored on those by, removing the enablement key, instead of hours or days, for some environments secure erase can be in minutes or less.
There are various warranties on HDDs, those from the manufacture that may be the same as what an OEM or system integrator passes on to their customers. Some HDDs have a manufactures limited warranty of five years while others have shorter terms. Thus while a manufacture may offer a five year warranty, it can be up to the OEM or integrator to pass that warranty on, or in turn provider a shorter duration with different terms or price. Something to think about in terms of HDD warranties is that replacing them can mean sending your old device back in exchange for a new one. If you have sensitive or secure data on those devices, how will they be disposed of? An option is to not leverage return to vendor or manufacture warranties opting for self-disposition, or using self-encrypting devices (SEDs).
This wraps up this post, coming up next in part V we will look at what to use when, where along with other options and some trends.
Ok, nuff said (for now).
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acl/MCL tear
severe shin bruise that made my leg swell up for 2 months.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730501&forum_id=2#34201965)
This was late 2005 iirc... I was still @ Yale...(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730501&forum_id=2#34202830)
I can two hand dunk off a drop step, but harder to do that in a game.
I'm not sure I can still dunk off of one foot on the fast break. Brute strength from squatting lets me jump off two feet, but I have lost a decent amount of speed and explosiveness.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730501&forum_id=2#34202527)
you are black?(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730501&forum_id=2#34252957)
We do have a summer program.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730501&forum_id=2#34252940)


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MONTREAL – A northern Quebec town cautiously celebrated Thursday after a dozen killer whales appeared to have freed themselves from the shifting floes of Hudson Bay.
But while some in the village of Inukjuak expressed relief, others feared the orcas might not have escaped danger.
Many locals believe the water currents and ever-moving ice in the massive, frigid bay may eventually box the mammals in somewhere else.
One expert in Arctic wildlife said they have good reason to be concerned, because the thicker winter ice has yet to form on the bay. The orcas, meanwhile, were still 1,000 kilometres from where they should be at this time of year, said Pete Ewins of World Wildlife Fund Canada.
"They got stuck (in Hudson Bay) and they're unlikely to get out," said Ewins, adding that killer whales are not accustomed to ice.
"These guys are on the edge and they might not make it through."
The animals' predicament made international headlines and the stunning images of the orcas circulated via media around the world.
For at least two days, the mammals were trapped around a single, pickup-truck-sized breathing hole in the sea ice, about 30 kilometres from Inukjuak.
Locals captured images of the orcas frantically bobbing for air from the opening, which allowed only a couple of the animals to surge for oxygen at a time.
The killer whales were first spotted Tuesday and were last seen at the hole late Wednesday. On Thursday, two Inukjuak hunters reported that the waters had opened up in the area and the orcas were gone.
Some villagers were skeptical the killer whales had escaped harm, so the community hired an airplane to scan the region Thursday for signs of the pod.
Mark O'Connor of the regional marine wildlife board said the aerial search did not locate the orcas, but he noted that large swaths of ice-free water were seen in the area.
"So as far as I could tell, the emergency, for sure, is averted," said O'Connor, the board's director of wildlife management.
"Whether the whales have found a passage all the way to the Hudson Strait, we probably will never know."
Inukjuak's town manager believes the orcas escaped the ice when the winds shifted overnight and blew back into the bay. Johnny Williams said the direction change seemed to have pushed the floating ice further away from the shore, loosening its coverage on the water.
He also credited the new moon for changing the conditions.
Tommy Palliser, a local government official, said in an email Thursday that the orcas' once-inadequate breathing hole was about 500 metres wide and up to five kilometres long.
He also expressed concern about the varying conditions.
"The problem is the wind is coming in again from the sea ice," wrote Palliser, a business adviser for northern Quebec's regional government.
Locals in Inukjuak, about 1,500 kilometres north of Montreal, believe the orcas were initially pinned under a vast expanse of ice after a sudden drop in temperature caught them off guard.
Ewins said that in recent years climate change has reduced sea-ice cover in Hudson Bay, opening the door to predators like orcas to spend more time there feeding in summer.
But sometimes they don't make it out, he said.
Ewins pointed to three ways to respond to the situation: rescue operations, such as helicopter lifts and icebreaker-dug channels; destroying the orcas if they start to suffer; and allowing nature to take its course.
"These clearly are the minority of the killer-whale population that didn't quite get it right and get out in time," Ewins said.
To survive the winter in the bay, he said the killer whales would have the challenge of moving from one ice-free area to another until the floes recede from the bay in May.
Experts say sea ice is known as a natural cause of death for marine mammals like orcas.
Palliser, who saw the animals up close several times, said they appeared to have less energy late Wednesday, the last time he saw them.
Many thought time was running out for the killer whales on Wednesday, as their breathing hole seemed to have shrunk in the freezing temperatures.
Inukjuak Mayor Peter Inukpuk asked the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on Wednesday to send an icebreaker to smash the ice to free the orcas, but he said he was told the site was too far away and that the ships were unavailable.
The federal department said Thursday that two DFO scientists were headed to the village to collect information.
Villagers, nonetheless, were ready to take action. They had made plans to launch a daring rescue operation Thursday in an effort to buy more time for the gasping killer whales.
Locals had agreed to attempt to enlarge the existing breathing hole — and cut a second opening using chainsaws and drills.
Williams hopes the villagers' prayers have been answered.
"These mammals are the same thing as humans, they deserve to live like everybody else," he said. "They don't need to suffer."


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By James Mackenzie and Barry Moody
ROME (Reuters) - President Giorgio Napolitano asked center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Friday to assess whether he can win enough support in Italy's divided parliament to form a government and end the political deadlock left by elections last month.
After two days of consultations with political leaders, Napolitano said he had given Bersani a mandate to talk to other parties and see if he can get the guaranteed support needed for a vote of confidence in both houses of parliament, where no single group has a workable majority.
The stalemate has left Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, facing the prospect of weeks of uncertainty as the bank crisis in Cyprus has reawakened fears of a renewed bout of financial market turmoil in the currency bloc.
Bersani, whose center-left alliance won control of the lower house but not of the Senate, must report back to Napolitano as soon as possible on whether he can get enough support from rival political forces to form a governing majority.
The 61-year-old former communist said he would seek to form a reform-minded government "with the maximum balance and determination".
He has said he hopes to present a limited program of economic and institutional reforms that could be backed by all forces in parliament but he faces formidable obstacles after a bitter election campaign.
Bersani until now has sought support from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and refused overtures from Berlusconi, who wants to share power in a grand coalition between center-right and center-left.
However he has been repeatedly and rudely rebuffed by the 5-Star leader, ex-comic Beppe Grillo, who says his group will not back any government formed by one of the mainstream parties.
In a television interview on Friday evening, Berlusconi said Bersani's only chance of forming a government was to go into coalition with his center-right group.
"It would put Italy in grave danger if Bersani were to insist on the wrong route, we would not have a government but a leap into the dark," he said.
In his speech, Napolitano noted Berlusconi's call for a coalition, but said the formula had failed in December when the center-right withdrew support from technocrat premier Mario Monti, who had been supported by both right and left.
Bersani said he would seek broad support from parliament but also from unions and other groups. He met the speakers of parliament on Friday and is due to meet unions and employers on Saturday before meeting political parties next week.
"I will certainly go to work with consultations that are necessary with the forces in parliament but without neglecting contact with the main groups in society," he said.
He gave no indication of how long the process would take but insisted he would not be rushed. "It's a difficult situation but I will take the time needed," he said.
If no durable accord can be reached, Italy faces a return to the polls within months, delaying any prospect of substantial reform to its stagnant economy, stuck in its longest recession in 20 years.
Financial markets have been watching the political uncertainty closely although so far there has been no sign of the panic that gripped investors during the 2011 crisis which brought down the last Berlusconi government.
The main barometer of confidence, the spread between yields on Italian 10-year government bonds and their more stable German counterparts, closed the week at 314 points, well short of the level of more than 550 seen in late 2011.
However Italy's 2-trillion-euro ($2.60-trillion) public debt is vulnerable to any bond market turbulence and public finances have deteriorated sharply during the recession, despite the tax hikes and spending cuts imposed by Monti.
Napolitano said Italy must move quickly but carefully to form a government capable of addressing deep economic and social problems. He said the election had shown there was discontent with traditional politics in Italy and called for national unity and an end to paralyzing conflict between the parties.
Time is running out, however. Apart from the pressure from financial markets, parliament must begin the process of electing a successor for Napolitano by mid-April in time to complete the process by the time his term ends on May 15.
The head of state rejected suggestions that the process of forming a government was taking too long. A month has passed since the election but Napolitano said the country was moving as quickly as possible within constitutional restraints.
Underlining the tense political climate, the PDL is due to hold a rally on Saturday to protest against two trials Berlusconi faces over his appeal against a tax fraud conviction and separate charges of paying for sex with a minor.
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(Additional reporting by Naomi O'Leary; Editing by Michael Roddy)


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Genetics of Retinoblastoma
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I have two sons. They have two uncles, both of whom had bilateral retinoblastoma as infants. The uncles' older brother (my boys' father) did not ever develop it. He has never been tested. The uncles were born in the late '50s. My boys were born in the '70's and had their retinas examined under general anesthesia periodically until they were two years old. My question is: can you determine a percentage of chance that my boys could have children that would have retinoblastoma?
Eric Shinohara, MD, Resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, responds:
Given the available information, we can hazard a guess at the risk (making certain assumptions), but we cannot provide an exact percentage chance that your grandchildren will have retinoblastoma. It appears from your information above that two of three brothers had bilateral retinoblastoma, while the oldest brother, the father of your children, did not develop retinoblastoma. This suggests that one of the brothers' parents carried a defective retinoblastoma gene. One possibility is that two of the brothers inherited the defective gene, and then unfortunately developed a second defect in the other copy of the retinoblastoma gene, thus resulting in the disease. In this scenario, the eldest brother did not inherit a copy of the gene, just by chance. Another possibility is that all three brothers inherited one defective gene, but the father of your children simply never had a second mutation and so he never manifested the disease. Yet a third and far less likely possibility is that - by complete chance - the two brothers with retinoblastoma both developed the sporadic form of the disease resulting in retinoblastoma, while the father of your children did not.
Based on these assumptions, the father of your children could have either: 1) inherited a single copy of the defective retinoblastoma gene (without ever manifesting signs of the disease from this single defect), or 2) be completely free of the mutation. Hence, it is impossible to know for certain whether your children are carriers of the defective retinoblastoma gene or not with the information we have at present.
Unfortunately, as you can see from the above discussion, it is impossible to determine the exact percentage risk. I would encourage you to contact a genetic counselor near you to discuss genetic testing with you and your family, and to see if further testing could help to determine the risk to your sons' children. Most genetic testing does require the testing of an affected individual, in this case one of the uncles, to identify the defective gene, if one is present. In some cases, tumor specimens that are stored can be used for testing, but the time that has passed since the cases were diagnosed makes this unlikely. To find a genetic counselor near you to discuss the options, you can use the search feature at the NCI site.


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Fashion Show at the Madison
Added Mar 8, 2011
Austin, Texas, U...
This is my favorite pic from a fashion show I did a couple of weeks ago downtown Austin. The top is a vintage scarf tied at the neck and sewn to the waistband of the skirt. I made the skirt from a sheer ,nude colored, lightweight material. The skirt is made up of about 4 layers with the last one made extra long. I added a mini pencil skirt lining underneath on this one because of the color and the back which I never got pictures of :( has fabric that cascades down the center and gives the skirt a very soft and elegant feel. You can check out the rest of the pics at www.BelroPhotography.com. Click on all pictures and scroll down to the bottom to find the Madison. Enjoy! <3 L
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Chiffon, Satin lining, Silk scarf
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Mar 8, 2011, 07.10 PMby mlssfshn
I want to see the back! Great Job Laisa!
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EclipseRT Logos
The EclipseRT logo is used to identify Eclipse project technology that is intended to be embedded into a running application or instructure solution (ex. applications servers, ESB, etc.). The EclipseRT logo is to demostrate that Eclipse is more than just development tools. Therefore, the focus is on applications, not developer tools.
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Posted on 03/18/2013 8:45:34 PM PDT by Nachum
"Marcus Hook mayor under investigation over gun incident, a Saturday Philly.com report revealed.
The mayor of tiny Marcus Hook, who just last year was a guest at the President's State of the Union address, is under investigation for allegedly shooting a gun in his house and giving alcohol to a 20-year-old whom he threatened to hold hostage, the report continues.
On top of that, the report says Mayor James D. Schiliro ordered a borough police officer to pick up the 20-year-old, who was at a friend's home, in a police vehicle and bring him to Schiliro's home. What his authority is for ordering the use of public resources by public personnel on what appears to be a personal matter is not stated.
While allegations that Schiliro waved three handguns around, put one to his head saying he didnt want to live any more, and made a hostage threat may be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, the accusation that he fired his gun into the floor is substantially supported by police removing from the premises a spent projectile, a section of wood with two holes [and] three 9mm bullets.
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Supports my theory that the democrat belief that people can't be trusted with guns is just a case of projection.
Have the police confiscated his arms yet?
Some liberals should be outlawed from owning firearms.
If liberals didn't have guns, I bet we would see a 90% reduction in gun violence/crime.
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Schiliro, a Republican, ran in the 2012 election for Pennsylvania House District 159 and lost to longtime Democratic incumbent Thaddeus Kirkland.
Last year he was the guest of U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R., Pa.) at the State of the Union to represent those workers and communities affected by the Sunoco and ConocoPhillips refinery closures.
Sounds like a perfect Obama/Bloomberg stooge.
Whoops! Here in Illinois many Dems run as GOP. Perhaps he's a switch hitter?
Doesn't say if he had a Big Gulp there.
A Bloomturd "republican".
It proves that if liberals weren't allowed to have guns, gun violence would decrease.
As for the cops, we're in trouble. An intelligent cop would have advised the mayor his request was unconstitutional. But the cops up against us have no idea what the constitution says and don't care because they love the power.
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Opinion, by Paul J. Griffiths
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – For Catholics around the world, there is no greater force for change than the views of a pope. Pope Francis gets his first opportunity to shed light on what kind of papacy his will be when he takes his first trip abroad, to Brazil July 22nd-28th. This is a visit to watch, for it will not only reveal more about this new papacy, but it may also spark social and economic change in the region.
As an Argentinian and the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 2001 until his election, Francis knows well the plight of millions of poor people in the region. He is a man with direct experience, from his own childhood in Buenos Aires onward, of the vast disparities of wealth and power that mark all the great cities of the world in our time.
Like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the site of recent street protests, Buenos Aires is one of the cities in which the future of Catholicism in South America will be determined. Like all sprawling cities of the global south, they are home to slums of a kind shocking to those used to the genteel poverty of New York and London, and that are within walking distance from communities of profound economic privilege.
In Brazil at the moment, and especially in São Paulo and Rio, the protesters are concerned about governmental corruption and increases in the prices of basic commodities, certainly. But they're also concerned, as was the Occupy movement in the U.S., about the deep inequality. They're not (yet) calling for regime change, but they are declaring the unacceptability of the disparities they see and live with.
Francis is scheduled to spend almost all his visit to Brazil in Rio, and to visit one of the more extreme slums of that city, Varginha, within the Manguinhos Complex. Can he find a word to say to the poor of Rio, and through them to the poor of Brazil, the poor of South America and the poor of the world that will comfort and inspire them, and help mold them into a force for change? Can he find a way to speak to the Brazilian government and to the world in terms that show the unacceptability of the present state of things, and that set moving some deep, structural changes?
He has already given signs that he has a special concern for the question of poverty, and a special identification with the poor. The papal name he took, that of Francis of Assisi, is among them. Francis was, among all the saints, the one who thought most about what poverty is, and about how it should and should not be embraced. Francis could speak from this position in such a way as to affirm the poor in their poverty while also showing how they, and their oppressors, might act to change things for the better.
And he could do this with a persuasive power possessed by no one else. National governments and state agencies, in Brazil as much as anywhere else, are compromised on these questions. They are perceived to be in the hands of elites, and what they say and do about this issue lacks moral conviction.
What Francis says might.
There is precedent: he could catalyze social and economic change about poverty in Latin America and in the global south in much the same way that John Paul II did in the 1980s about Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.
But there are problems. The Catholic Church in South America has, since the 1970s, first produced and then repudiated a theological movement — liberation theology — whose main concern was with the condition of the poor. And it has, from time to time, allied itself more strongly than was prudent with some of the more oppressive political regimes in that part of the world.
Pope Francis will need to thread his way through the obstacles produced by this history if he is to find his voice on these issues. I hope he can, and I hope that his visit to Brazil will show him speaking with clarity and passion about them.
Paul J. Griffiths is the Warren Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.
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For the people: A century of the NH primary
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Today, the 100th anniversary of the creation of the New Hampshire presidential primary, is a day for all of the Granite State to celebrate. It would be a day for much of the rest of the nation to celebrate, too, if they understood the benefits to the nation of New Hampshire's great presidential tradition.
The law that created the primary was called the "Bullock Act." Passed and signed into law on the same day (May 21, 1913), it let the people vote directly on party delegates to national political conventions. That was a huge reform at the time, one that transferred political power from party bosses to the people.
This practice remained in place until 1952, when a new revision allowed Granite Staters to vote directly for their preferred presidential candidate, creating the primary as we know it today. That year, Granite Staters chose Sen. Estes Kefauver over President Harry Truman in the Democratic presidential primary, prompting Truman not to seek a second term.
For decades, our presidential primary has been the target of jealous politicians in other states. They want the national political clout (and, to a lesser extent, the money) that comes with the First in the Nation status. What they all fail to (or pretend not to) understand is why the New Hampshire primary has become this great, fabled thing. It is not simply New Hampshire's status as the first primary state (secured by state law in 1975). It is that New Hampshire remains true to the spirit that was embodied in that 1913 law by closely connecting presidential candidates with the people who vote for them.
No other state in the Union has New Hampshire's tradition of self-government, which gives voters an extraordinary level of political experience and knowledge, as well as the infrastructure that forces candidates into the small-scale retail political campaigning that manifests itself in numerous direct interactions with the voters.
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text: To celebrate the premiere of Lost Season 4 in Europe, Portugese guerrilla marketing firm Torke collaborated with Fox to drop Dharma Initiatives boxes onto the streets of Lisbon. A couple of blogs mentioned this yesterday, but nobody has revealed what's in them. What could be in it? A polar bear? Walt? (Maybe Walt.) Boxes of Dharma coke and Dharma cereal? We don't know for sure, but Lost fans in Lisbon were psyched to see artifacts from their favorite TV show appear on their doorsteps in real life.


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Pamela Louie of Tracy was driving on Interstate 580 with her dog Bear on one of those 100-degree plus days when inspiration struck.
Pamela Louie of Tracy was driving on Interstate 580 with her dog Bear on one of those 100-degree plus days when inspiration struck.
Sharing her dog's frustration when he couldn't easily get a drink from the water bowl she had put on the car floor, Louie thought of a way to put the bowl in a sling hung on the back of the front seat. So was born K9 Kreek, a product and new company.
After a couple of years of design and development, Louie is ready to take her next steps and has entered this year's San Joaquin Entrepreneur Challenge, where she is among 18 entrepreneurs selected to participate in the first public round of competition Feb. 27 that could lead to a share of more than $24,000 in cash and business services.
Money would help. Louie said she'd like to acquire a programmable, commercial-grade sewing machine to replace the consumer-level equipment she's now using. But she's even more interested in the mix of business services, such as legal, accounting and design expertise.
"Of the business services, marketing is the thing," she said. "Even though I have a website, I still have to drive customers there."
The Entrepreneur Challenge, organized by the San Joaquin Angels investors group, is intended to help startup or would-be business owners, said Mark Plovnick, the angels group president and University of the Pacific's economic development director.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Good nature: gamay
After several days in the Loire Valley tasting natural wines, I find myself back in Paris. Natural wines hold pride of place hereabouts, as well; so it was that I stopped in to a local store — Naturalia, an organic food store, for those curious — and picked up a bottle of 2008 Clos Roche Blanche Cuvée Gamay.
What can I say about this wine but that it gives vins nature a good name? It burnishes those tarnished images of sanctimonious flops: VA-riddled, Brettanomyces-laced catastrophes poured forth by certain natural winemakers with all of the earnestness of Moonies, proclaiming that inadvertent secondary fermentation is just the voice of the grapes coming out. Damn it: teach those grapes to sing properly.
Which is what they do, at Clos Roche Blanche. This wine is a joy. It is clean and balanced; the fruit is unabashed in its forthcoming freshness; the texture is silken; the whole has masterful transparency of its grape and earth. It avoids funkiness as a disgracedly tattered flag. This is a wine, like others of the domaine I have had the luck to taste and drink, that is Platonically simple, and ridiculously good.
It's a shame the Touraine appellation is almost a mar for producers who are doing such astounding work. As I've written here before, I would rather drink their Sauvignon Blanc than many, many a Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, supposedly of nobler extraction.
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- elodie said...
Thank u another beautiful post !
- February 11, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- The Wine Mule said...
Three cheers for Catherine Roussel and Didier Barrouillet, who have indeed taught the grapes to sing in harmony. They also make a marvelous rosé from gamay, pale, limpid, and and filled with berry perfume. (For once this is something we can actually get in the U.S., thanks to Uncle Joe.)
- March 4, 2010 at 1:57 PM
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Hear, hear!
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I love these late 60's snaps from Jones Beach by photographer Joseph-Szabo.
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Rough, grainy and cinematic: Retronaut puts together a stunning portrait of New York 1800-1890s.
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HOLY vertical view on Manhattan ( New York, in 1944). By Andreas Feininger pic.twitter.com/sDutQ4WdSI
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A treasure trove of New York photos – black and whites, industrial, postcards, clock towers, The World Trade Centers. You name it's here. I love the 70's style abandonment issues. It's like a junkyard.
On a cold and blustery day on October 28, 1961, shovels broke ground in Queens for the first stadium to be built in New York City since 1923. The steel and concrete structure that grew in Flushing was originally going to be named "Flushing Meadows Stadium" but in the fall of 1962, civic leader Bernard Gimbel spearheaded a campaign to rename the facility Shea Stadium in honor of the man (popular attorney William A. Shea) who was the driving force in bringing a National League team back to the Big Apple.
The architectural firm of Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury designed the stadium to be the second all-purpose facility in the country capable of hosting baseball and football games, seating 55,300 for baseball and over 60,000 for New York Jets games. D.C. Stadium in Washington, opened in 1962, was the first all-purpose facility built just a year earlier. In June of 1962, steel grids began crawling skyward. Six months later the shell of Shea was completed and by July of 1963 pre-cast concrete units covered the steel framework.
Two bitterly cold winters in 1962 and 1963 and more than 17 different labor strikes forced Shea to open a year later than planned. The 45-acre plot where the young Mets could finally feel at home was the same land the city offered to Dodgers President Walter O'Malley in the mid 1950's before he bolted for the comforts of Los Angeles. (Folklore stories have long rumored that when city officials scouted out stadium sites, they went during the winter, when flight paths into LaGuardia are different, so they never anticipated the amount of aircraft noise during the summer).
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